Sometimes it can be hard to determine which of the many small business podcasts will provide what you need. So much audio, so little time.

So we have taken the guesswork out of it for you. We narrowed it down to 100 informative podcasts for small business owners and entrepreneurs.

Most of the following podcasts specifically target a small business audience. Others have a broader business focus. All, however, are relevant to business owners and entrepreneurs. Explore and listen, and see what you think of this list.

Leadership and Management

Fireside Chat — With Lisa Haneberg. In these 30-minute podcasts Lisa tends to focus on middle management issues, often interviewing an author, consultant or business owner.

Leader Network Podcasts — The Leader Network podcast series features interviews with successful leaders such as Stephen Covey, to inspire you and show you how to become a better leader.

The Good Manager — A podcast about what it takes to be a better manager, including tips for hiring, motivating and firing employees.

Manager Tools — Detailed and specific tips on workplace management issues, such as: how to make a job offer; how to run a staff meeting; how to have an open door policy.

JobDig — By JobDig.com, a Midwest USA job search company. Practical tips for employees, hiring managers and HR managers on topics such as: are you a negative person; how to deal with gossip in the workplace; and casual Fridays. Nice feature: podcasts can be listened to by phone.

Daily Thoughts for Business — By Greg Balanko-Dickson, a licensed business coach from Canada. Most podcasts are 1 to 10 minutes long, including topics such as: Boost Your Employees’ Self Esteem, Freeing Yourself from Impossibilities, Frustration and Confusion.

Meet the CEO — With Jennifer Gardiner. This series features interviews with CEOs to get at their true vision and passion.

Full Circle Global Mentoring — With host The Biz Connector. From start-up to management pitfalls, success stories, business mentoring, small business events and dynamic comebacks.

The American Entrepreneur — Hosted by Ron Morris. Business advice and insights from top professionals, interviews with renowned entrepreneurs, and business questions and ideas from the show’s audience.

Hesh Reinfeld Business Humor — Hesh is a syndicated business humor columnist. Hesh brings a humorous, sometimes self-deprecating edge to topics such as family business issues, business networking and doing deals.

MBA Working Girl Podcast — Host, Laura Adams, MBA, brings personal knowledge and experience from her career as a business owner, manager, consultant, and trainer.

Women Power Talk Radio — With Raven Blair Davis. Celebrating women over 40, who want more out of life. Features three different shows: MLM Divas, Amazing Women in Business, and Women Power Talk.

The Welch Way — With Jack and Suzy Welch. The legendary former CEO of General Electric and his wife, the former editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review, debate management and careers. Some advice may not translate perfectly to small businesses, but it is wise counsel nonetheless.

Marketing and Sales

Blog Business Success — By Wayne Hurlbert. Interviews with experts on blogging, search engines, public relations and marketing.

Biz III — By Mike Hughes and Les Bain. Provides insights into online marketing, often highlighting websites that entrepreneurs can use for marketing.

Personal Brand Marketing podblog — With Vikram Rajan. Offers tips for marketing when the person is the brand — attorneys, accountants, financial planners and other advisors.

Marketing Voices — Featuring Jennifer Jones. Insight, perspective and advice from leaders in the new social media marketing world.

InsidePR Podcast — By Terry Fallis and David Jones. A weekly Canadian podcast about public relations, including traditional and online PR.

Like Nobody’s Business — By Lalita Amos. Lalita is from Indianapolis, Indiana (USA) and offers tips and advice on topics such as customer service and selling. She interviews key business professionals, too — all in a personal and conversational approach.

Small Business Administration — The SBA brings a portion of their small business information to audio. Nice touch: each recording contains a written transcript.

Small Biz Survival Podcast — By Becky McCray. Talks are focused on providing small business leadership and management advice. Focuses on the realities of being a small business owner in rural and small town areas.

Entrepreneur People — Hosted by Sherry Borzo. Interviews with everyday entrepreneurs, with a focus on central Iowa USA.

Small Business Mentors Club — This Australian podcast series explores practical issues such as modulating your voice for more powerful business dealings, and partnerships in business.

MySuccessGateway Podcasts — Site presented by Jim Peake. This site features interviews with a variety of “gurus.” Topics range from news to topics that small business owners will find informative.

Small Business Podcast.com — Interviews with small business experts, entrepreneurs and others, on a wide range of topics: from Google Analytics to busting out of corporate America and starting your own business.

One Minute How-to — With George Smyth. For those who want to cut to the chase. Guests only have 60 seconds to explain something.

GopherHaul Lawn Care Podcast — This practical podcast (and now video) series gives detailed pointers on running a successful lawn care business. Much of the nuts and bolts advice applies to any local service business.

Answers For Freelancers! — By Bob Ostrom and Chris Wilson, artists with decades of experience. With advice and inspiration for being a freelance artist.

Mind Your Own Business Podcast — With Guy Kingston, an entrepreneur who succeeded in the “Wild East” of post-Communist Russia. Topics include: per-hour billing, working from home, going bankrupt, work-life balance, and business insurance.

The Tim Knox Show — Host Tim Knox broadcasts weekly from Hunstville, Alabama. Features common sense business advice for entrepreneurs, tinged with humor.

Growing Your Business with Fred and Lyna — With Fred Hueston and Lyna Farkas. A weekly radio show with banter between the two co-hosts and interviews with guests, especially guests who had a new idea (called “Aha-preneurs”).

Internet Business Mastery — By Jeremy Frandsen and Jason Van Orden. How to prosper as an entrepreneur in your Internet-based business.

TeenBiz Podcast — Each episode features a 10-minute segment devoted to improving students’ business practices, such as Internet marketing.

Biz Link Radio — This podcast is produced and distributed by a business called Virtual Tape Drive from Canada. Providing a nice blend of business advice from experts and also commentary on being an entrepreneur.

Fitness Business Radio — With Dave DePew and Tom Perkins. Offers business solutions for the fitness industry, including health clubs and fitness professionals.

Business With Cents — With Anthony LeGree. This is a show about an aspiring entrepreneur who is creating a business with change collected in an ordinary piggy bank.

Startups and Starting a Business

Startup BizCast — By Endgame PR Podcast Production. This podcast bills itself as the “Small Business Advice Podcast That’s Shorter Than Your Coffee Break.” Most podcasts are under 10 minutes.

Startup Lounge — With Scott Burkette and Michael Blake. Interviews with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists providing tips for startups and those seeking capital, with a focus on the Atlanta area / Southeastern United States.

Venture Voice — With Gregory Galant. Explores how entrepreneurs build their businesses and live their lives. Straight talk from successful entrepreneurs, with a focus on tech entrepreneurs.

Livin’ The Dream — With Sybil Ege and Leo Wisniewski. Livin’ The Dream is a live weekly radio program designed to help people explore self-employment options outside of the corporate job market.

Home Based Business

Home Business Radio — With host Paul Stanton. Covers all aspects of running a business from home. Episodes range from 2 minutes to 30 minutes or more.

Christian Business Talk Radio — With Marlo Boux and Regina Baker. To equip and encourage the Christian business owner, with a focus on those who work at home.

Work at Home Moms Talk Radio — With Kelly McCausey. Work At Home Moms Talk Tadio has interviews every Monday morning with successful moms and business owners, with an emphasis on Internet-based businesses.

ShoeString Home Business — By Carl Weisbrod. Tutorials on how to create Web sites and conduct e-commerce on a small budget from home.

Small Business Technology

Entrepreneur’s Journey — By Yaro Starak. Aimed at those starting and running Internet businesses. Topics are specific and granular, such as how to take payments online, sell e-books or launch a new product.

Technology for Business Sake — With Brent Leary and Michael Thomas. This weekly radio program airs in Atlanta and also has downloadable podcasts. Features interviews on technology issues, many of interest to small businesses.

WebmasterRadio.fm — This Internet radio network offers a line-up of some of the best search engine optimization (SEO), affiliate marketing, and e-commerce shows on the Web.

The SBS Show By Vlad Mazek and Susanne Dansey. Covers information technology (IT) in small to medium businesses IT, with advice that can make you a better system administrator, IT consultant, competent IT Professional or well informed business owner.

On the Record — With Eric Schwartzman of iPressroom. A professionally-produced podcast about how information technology is changing media news and entertainment. Features helpful show notes with detailed minute markers.

Podcast Brothers — With Tim and Emile Bourquin. A weekly show on the business of creating and promoting audio and video. Also includes document downloads, including sample media kits and legal issues in podcasting.

Podcasting for Business — By Podworx. This is a podcast about podcasting. Educates on the Four Ps of business podcasting: Plan, Produce, Publish and Promote.

Beginning SEO — By David Brown. Search engine optimization (SEO) for beginners, without overwhelming them with technical details.

Word Press Made Easy — Mike Paetzold is from the coal region of Pennsylvania. He works full time online and uses a variety of blogs. His podcasts are tutorials and question-and-answer sessions about WordPress and blogging.

I’m There for You Baby — By Neil Senturia and Barbara Bry. This San Diego-based radio show has an energetic format and a tongue-in-cheek attitude. Addresses topics for entrepreneurs, especially technology entrepreneurs.

MidwestBusiness.com Podcast — By Adam Fendelman and Brad Spirrison. Features audio about technology businesses in the Midwest USA, with a focus on Chicago-based businesses.

Practical eCommerce — By Practical eCommerce magazine. Practical tips, tools, and resources, including help with ecommerce software and more, to those who are growing their online businesses.

The Podcast Academy — by various people, via GigaVox Media. A group of podcasts about podcasting. Includes topics such as promoting your podcast, interviewing tactics and podcast metrics.

Small Business Advocate — Jim Blasingame was one of the first with a small business radio show. His archives contain hundreds of segments, on everything from banking, to motivation, to sales and sales management.

SmallBizPod — By Alex Bellinger. This UK-based SmallBizPod has over 50 podcasts with interviews. Essential for staying up-to-date on the U.K. small business scene, but also applicable to entrepreneurs everywhere.

Microbusiness News Briefs — By Dawn Rivers Baker. Audio version of the Microbusiness News Briefs newsletter. Focuses on the needs of microbusiness owners (generally those with under 5 employees or with a microenterprise mindset and structure).

Biz Radio Magazine — By Lee Mirabal. Explores all aspects of starting and growing a business.

Small Business Trends Radio — With Anita Campbell and Steve Rucinski — our own show! Features in-depth interviews with guests on a range of topics necessary to running a business: marketing, sales, business operations, financing, technology, trends. Each show is like a mini-seminar.

Business News and The Big Picture

Business Week — Ten different shows and literally hundreds of recordings to choose from. Many deliver the backstory to published BusinessWeek articles.

TIME Business Podcast — TIME and TIME.com cover business stories addressing the full spectrum of executive interests – from technology to management to small business.

New York Times Podcasts — The New York Times offers over a dozen podcasts to supplement its written coverage. Topics include personal technology, international news, book reviews and the backstory behind New York Times articles.

Killer Innovations — With Phil McKinney. Covers innovation: what it is; how to jump start it. Although geared toward executives in large companies, they also offer thought-provoking ideas for entrepreneurs.

Non-active Podcasts

Bonus: Some podcasts are no longer running or have not been updated in many months. We include them as noteworthy because the archives contain valuable tips, insights, and information.

Great Big Small Business Show — Produced by Becky McCray. This podcast takes input from 5 or more individual contributors and weaves them together. Topics include: organization, delegation, customer service, networking and more.

Motivation On The Run — With Denis Waitley. Having been motivated incorrectly by managers, his approach is one of getting to know the people and motivating by caring.

Warren Greshes — Sales coaching for sales professionals and small business owners.

Hawaii Diner — The Hawaii Diner Podcast is all about the business of restaurants and food. No recent recordings, and that’s a shame.

I’m Boss TV — This Austrailian based small business site, run by the Federal Minister for Small Business, covers a wide range of small business topics. Sadly, it appears to not have been updated in a number of months.

Feisty Females Radio — With Shari Gaynor. Features inspiring stories of women who have taken the leap in one way or another to create their own successful businesses.

Smarter By The Minute — By Doug Smart, an award-winning, international motivational speaker and author. He presents innovative and interractive programs on leadership, teambuilding, sales, and talent selection.

The Global Entrepreneur Series — Mr. Davis has over two decades of experience conducting business in Asia and over 15 different countries, and shares his hands-on experience.

Thanks for including Startup BizCast! I would actually classify it under “operating a small business” rather than “startups” … despite the name. Then again, most startups ARE small businesses, so it’s just the same I guess!

Anita, thank you for the recognition of the Marketing Edge. I started Provident Partners specifically to be a marketing firm for small business. It was when I was driving back home from LA to St. Paul, MN on Sep 13, 2001. My flight on the 11th was cancelled and so were the one on the next two days, so I drove home and thought about life.

I concluded that it was too short and I wanted to spend it with smart, fun people that wanted to try new things in my profession of marketing. Your show is wonderful and as you know better than most, it takes hard work, perseverance, and a positive attitude to be a small business owner. Thanks again.

Awesome list of business podcasts. My personal brand marketing podBlog is a mix of audio podcasts and text tips… thanks for visiting. Your list is already referenced on my blog with this comment, through CoComment (handy tool to create a dynamic blogroll of our Comment-osphere).

Over at the Small Business Trends Radio show site, we have published a great big list of 100 small business podcasts.
The Back-story Behind the List
Staci, the Program Manager for the Small Business Trends Radio show, has been working on the list for…

The Small Business Trends Radio Show recently announced the release of their 100 Small Business Audio Podcasts that contain a wide range of educational information and resources to help operate a small business. These business-related podcasts are of…

Thanks for the inclusion of my Blog Business Success show on your great list of podcasts. Without a doubt, the lines between terrestrial radio, internet radio, and independent site and blog based podcasts are disappearing. We are on the edge of a new broadcasting frontier including audio, video, and the written word.

Many great new voices are being heard and discovered by the listening audience. Citizen broadcasting is still in its infancy, and will grow even more in the future, creating new media stars in their own right. Talent that would never have been heard in the past is emerging now, and will continue to do so in the future.

Your great list emphasises business podcasters, of whom I am one. The same phenomenon is occurring in every other topic area as well. The future is indeed bright for podcasters.

Thanks so much for compiling this list. it’s really great! There’s some great sources on here that are sure to help out a lot of growing busiensses, like mine. I picked out a few, will let you know which ones are the best I came across.

Glad to see Kelly McCausey’s WAHMTalk Radio podcast on here – it’s one of the most accessible, clearly presented resources for work at home moms. I’ll have to come back here often Anita – I use to be active in the NE Ohio business community and hope to return soon. You’re information is excellent.

Long time reader – first time poster.
Oh my gosh you guys I don’t know if you’ve heard of “”conversations with miollionaires”” but I just found out Jason Oman who did that book is going to be doing a new one for female entrepreneurs like us. Here’s the page I came across so you can get updates about it too.
conversationswithfemalemillionaires.com
I can’t wait for it because I loved his first book. I hear he’s gonna have Martha Stewart, Ray Rachel, Kim Kiyosaki the wife of the guy from rich dad poor dad.
You can obtain more info at http://www.conversationswithfemalemillionaires.com

I just found an excellent resource. Turn your car or treadmill into a mobile university, as Brian Tracy likes to say. Here is a list of 100 podcasts, which are simply downloadable audios by top notch business experts. There are

Hi there — Here’s another that people may find useful: The Stanford Technology Ventures Program offers its Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series via free podcast at http://edcorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html.

I was googling around found this web site. I am surprised and honored to find The Force Field on this list. I would like to add that although it is listed under inactive podcasts the show is indeed active and a new episode was released yesterday. The show was placed on an extended hiatus while I prepared to move from Florida to my new home in North Carolina. I also built a web portal around the show to provide my listeners technical and business resources to start, manage and grow their IT businesses. The Force Field is now back in production and is available from our web site at http://www.theforcefield.net.

Hello,
I own and run a small, home based, internet radio and web TV station here on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
I noted that you mentioned that I’m Boss.TV is no longer updated and thought that you may like to take a look at what we do.

The site has been in existance for 2.5 years and is now attractibg some useful visitor numbers.

I have just started putting some short TV/Video ‘programmes’ on the site with a remarkable and instant positive response more than doubling site visitors within a week.

One of the attractions for the site is the availability of free audio/video workshop content based on the workshops and seminars that I deliver around Australia and have done for a number of years. These are quite comprehensive and I am expanding the range almost every week.

Next week we will have a Lawyer recording his first programme which talks about small business issues such as copyright, trademarks and on getting arrested! A business coach starts his programme the following week with more specialists in the pipeline ready to roll.

Amongst new topics will be LEAP! Leveraging Existing Assets and Products, a diagnostic style of programme that provides the viewers with a simple to use diagnostic tool that actually puts a shape to their business. Anopther will be Succession Planning which will involve a number of specialist presenters, it’s main message will be that you don’t have to be thinking of selling your business to have a succession plan.

I do hope that our station will be of interest to you and would love to link up and communicate with our counterparts throughout the US.

For my show on SolidVox, click on “comment by Martin Lindeskog” if you want to listen to interviews with editorial cartoonist, Allen Forkum of Cox & Forkum, and novelist, Ed Cline, author of Sparrowhawk series.

We have a stock market talk show podcast, where two 25 year Wall Street Veterans, Val Hughes and Vern Value, (not their real names in order to protect their jobs), shoot the breeze about stocks every Friday after work. It’s fun, educational and entertaining. It’s a half hour show every Friday since Dec 2005.
We would be honored to be considered for your business podcast category. All past shows are archived athttp://www.thevalueguys.com/podcast
Thanks for taking our note. Best regards, Val Hughes

Firstly- S.B.T.R. is fantastic,Ilove the more esoteric themes of some of your shows and all involved are to be congratulated.

Secondly and I am not sure this is the forum to bring something to your production teams notice.

But because I enjoy the show immensely I would just like to ask if there was someone of having higher quality sound,as often find it difficult to understand some areas of the podcast because of the poor sound quality.

The sound levels require some sort of modulation as I often have to quickly turn the volume down on a question but when a guest etc answers I immediately have to turn up the volume and so on.

Hope this is taken as constructive feedback as it really is a great podcast,thankyou

Hi! Thank you very much for compiling this list. is really great! There are some excellent resources here that are sure to help a lot of growing businesses, like mine. I chose a few, will let you know what are the best we found.

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